The R.A.T was my first proper gaming mouse. I enjoyed it for a time, but there were definitely some build quality issues (loose wires causing random disconnects and such.) However, I’ve heard that has improved as of late. For me, I’ve moved onto Logitech gaming mice; they may not be the fanciest but they’re solid and…

The mental illness/barefoot connection is... not great.  But to be honest, if I had the capability to just permanently float around, I would not wear shoes or socks either.  Freedom, baby.

After all these years, I still find it funny (sorta) that people had the same issue with Mario Party one that I did. I thought it was just me, because I was the only kid I knew who played MP, and I played it by myself because I was a sad, weird child.

I haven’t gotten to read it myself yet, so not sure if it will be relevant for you, but one of the original level designers for WoW wrote a book recently: The World of Warcraft Diary by John Staats

At first, I had trouble coming up with ideas, but now I have too many...

Very much the same for me, every once in a while I come across a game that I’m just having too much fun to finish (RDR 1 and BotW were the prime examples for me.) The flip side of that is whenever I get back into the game, I usually decide that I need to restart the whole thing, for reasons

Only if the filmmakers are able to treat the subject matter with the respect and discretion it deserves.

The Game Boy was actually the first video game system I ever played or owned. My mom had bought it for my dad for business trips and commutes, a remarkably prescient idea given modern mobile gaming, but my father was probably the least likely person to actually use it. Tiny 3 year old me, on the other hand, latched on…

Good article, which I largely agree with. Epic is not great, but people are acting like these are the end times and the entire thing has been blown out of proportion. Especially when you consider Steam’s own history, and how many parallels there are. This article from PC gamer helped jog my memory of that: “The…

You’re conflating how words are presented with what they convey, which is a huge mistake. Words being inside a text bubble doesn’t inherently devalue what they’re saying or what you can get out of it by reading it. In an MMO, most of what you’re seeing is either player communication or quest text, so narrative plays…

Miyazaki’s views are a double-edged sword, in a way. I think his anti-modernism is why so many of his movies are so enchanting, and on certain levels he raises good points about environmentalism, warmongering, and so on, though as others have pointed out there are some massive holes in his logic. He’s highly…

To be fair, Warhammer (and 40k) did make the Orcs/Orks/Whatever-they call-them-now cockney, which for me was one of the biggest improvements in fantasy characterization in decades *slight hyperbole here*

To be fair, Warhammer (and 40k) did make the Orcs/Orks/Whatever-they call-them-now cockney, which for me was one of the biggest improvements in fantasy characterization in decades *slight hyperbole here*

This is probably one of the games that I spent the most time in without finishing. It was just so fun to drive around the first level Springfield that I spent forever there.  I think there’s something to be said for taking the GTA formula and just toning it down a bit.

Personally, I liked Battletech a lot, though I was a fan of the franchise beforehand. It’s definitely not a quick game, pacing wise, but it’s very detailed and I thought it was very enjoyable. If you want something that’s lighter and faster, Into the Breach is great. It’s got a different feel, it’s doesn’t dwell as…

For me, Chaos Theory will always be the Splinter Cell game, and quite possibly the best stealth game ever made. Blacklist was pretty decent, but I never could get the energy to complete the campaign (plus, I almost always ended up getting too involved in trying to perfect the side quests.) It was certainly an…

I miss player-run servers in multiplayer games. I cut my multiplayer teeth on Halo PC, CS: Source, Battlefield, and TF2. I was generally never part of any clans, but always had a list of go to servers where I could usually find good games. You could go to the big, mainstream lobbies which were usually full but…

Oof. I know I (and many others) have said this many, many times, but EA’s handling of the Star Wars license has to be one of the biggest video game fumbles in a long time. At this point, we’re going to have 5 Star Wars movies released in the time span it took EA to make 2 video games, and that was with a 2 year head…

I was about to post the same thing. This has actually kind of gotten me back into the game just a little, even setting up my VR again for the first time in quite a while. Both games seem to come to the same result from opposite directions: Elite’s core gameplay of flying ships can be very fun, but it often doesn’t let…

So Far, I’ve only gotten to watch Mob Psycho 100 II, which is excellent, The Price of Smiles, which got off to a pretty slow start but may have some potential (and mechs, so it gets at least another week or two), and Shield Hero, which is ehhhhhh.... potential controversies aside, it was extremely predictable (and not…